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Chinese firms ask employees to boycott Apple in support of Huawei
Chinese companies are said to be banding together in a show of solidarity towards telecommunications firm Huawei Technology Co. Ltd. by encouraging their employees to buy its smartphones and other devices. In some cases, the show of support is going even further, with reports that employees are also being discouraged from buying products from rival ...
China said to be mulling new law that would ban forced technology transfers
Lawmakers in China are reported to be considering a new law governing foreign investments that would prevent the “forced transfer” of technology to Chinese firms. The report from the Xinhua news agency Sunday said the proposed new law would replace existing laws on Chinese and foreign equity joint ventures, nonequity joint ventures and wholly foreign-owned ...
Apple promotes AI chief John Giannandrea to its executive team
Apple Inc. today rewarded its recent hire John Giannandrea with a promotion to its top executive team, handing him a new role as senior vice president of machine learning and artificial intelligence strategy. Giannandrea is a machine learning expert who joined Apple in April, just days after he left previous employer Google LLC, where he established ...
Data science startup Dataiku raises $101M in Series C round
Big-data startup Dataiku Inc. has just raised a hefty $101 million in a round of funding announced Wednesday. The Series C round was led by ICONIQ Capital, with participation from Alven Capital, Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital and FirstMark Capital. It brings its total funding to date just north of $146 million. Not everyone has heard ...
Report: Microsoft ponders acquisition of networking firm Mellanox
Microsoft Corp. could be set to make one of the earliest tech acquisitions in the New Year, according to a report that suggests it’s interested in buying up Israeli networking company Mellanox Technologies Ltd. The report Wednesday by the Hebrew-language publication TheMarker say Microsoft has hired the services of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to negotiate on its ...
3M buys M*Modal’s healthcare-focused conversational AI assistant tech
Specialized healthcare software provider 3M Co. has bought itself an early Christmas present, M*Modal IP LLC’s medical technology business, for a “total enterprise value” of $1 billion. 3M said the acquisition, announced today, is intended to boost its own health information systems business by adding M*Modal’s artificial intelligence-based conversational software for physicians to its portfolio of products. ...
SoftBank pumps $500M into driving data analytics firm Cambridge Mobile Telematics
Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc., which uses smartphone data in order to analyze the behavior of drivers on the road, today became the latest beneficiary of SoftBank Corp’s $100 billion Vision Fund. The eight-year-old startup, which was born out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, landed a hefty $500 million in ...
Facebook’s Oculus open-sources DeepFocus code for more realistic VR images
Facebook Inc.’s Oculus virtual reality team today open-sourced the code behind its DeepFocus software that’s used to create more realistic visuals for VR headsets. The DeepFocus software first came to public attention in May, when Oculus showed off a new prototype VR headset called Half Dome. The prototype headset featured a “varifocal” display that moves ...
Google is letting non-account holders view and edit documents in G Suite
Google LLC is testing a new feature for G Suite that lets users send invites to people without a Google account and allow them to interact with Google documents. G Suite, Google’s productivity suite that comes with commercial versions of services including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Sites and Slides, is a rival to Microsoft Corp.’s more ...
SAP updates its enterprise information management tools
Enterprise software giant SAP SE today added a bunch of new capabilities to its Enterprise Information Management suite in order to help to reduce the complexity associated with managing company data. The updated products include SAP’s Master Data Governance offering for SAP S/4HANA 1809, which provides a central location to create, change, distribute or consolidate ...